For the past 150 years or so, scientists have theorized that the life cycle of the present-day lamprey mirrors the evolution of all fish – and thus of all vertebrates. Newly analyzed fossils, however, ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Disrupting the sea lamprey’s mating call may be the key to limiting its numbers in the Great Lakes, where the eel-like parasite sucks the life out of sport fish, scientists say.

Paleontologists in China have unearthed the 160-million-year-old fossilized remains of two new lamprey species. Their discovery—published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications—helps fill a gap ...

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Lampreys belong to an ancient group of fish called Agnatha that evolved 450 million years ago, predating both dinosaurs and trees. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as you could imagine. But a new study finds that the animals have a surprising similarity ...

The sympathetic nervous system was thought to have evolved with jawed vertebrates. But lampreys—jawless, parasitic fish that suck out the blood of their hosts—have a simple one, per recent research.

Duluth, Minn. — Invasive, parasitic sea lampreys continue to hunt and kill Lake Superior fish above the levels biologists would like to see, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic caused parts of two ...

Lamprey prepared for roasting at Latvia's Salacgriva festival - Copyright AFP Gints Ivuskans At a cauldron bubbling away on a riverbank near Latvia’s Baltic coast ...

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – With a suction-cup like mouth full of ringed rows of sharp teeth, the sea lamprey may look like something from a science-fiction movie. However, these eels are a common ...

Before you cannonball into that refreshing pool, look before you leap. It could just be filled to the brim with blood-sucking lampreys. And they’re hungry. How would they feed on you? How could you ...